English-Finnish translations for chine

• harja
  hiusharja, hammasharja, tiskiharja, vaateharja
  katuharja
  harja ja rikkalapio
• harjanne
• palle
• ruoto
  Ruoto on niitattu ponteen kiinni.
  viilan ruoto
• selkäranka
  Metsäteollisuus muodostaa Suomen talouden selkärangan.
  Päättäjillä tulisi olla selkärankaa tehdä vaikeitakin päätöksiä.

Definition of chine

• The top of a ridge
• A piece of the backbone of an animal, with the adjoining parts, cut for cooking
• A hollowed or bevelled channel in the waterway of a ship's deck
• The back of the blade on a scythe
• To cut through the backbone of; to cut into chine pieces
• A steep-sided ravine leading from the top of a cliff down to the sea
• To crack, split, fissure, break.

Examples

• The wayward son did chine his fathers heart
• A drought had caused the earth to chine and cranny

Related words

• machine
• Chinese
• Achinese
• machinery
• Chinee
• trichinellosis
• grouchiness
• machine-readable
• manchineel